GCN Circular 24977
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190630ag: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
Date
2019-07-04T14:53:39Z (6 years ago)
From
Deepak Eappachen at SRON Netherlands <d.eappachen@sron.nl>
Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, D. Eappachen (SRON/RU), S. Hodgkin, A. Delgado,
D.L. Harrison, M.van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (IoA Cambridge), P.G. Jonker
(SRON/RU) on behalf of Gaia Alerts team report the discovery of a transient
candidate within the probability skymap of S190630ag (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN 24922):
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Name TNSid Date [TCB] RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL
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Gaia19cua AT2019kih 2019-07-02T10:26:22 219.41432 -54.98491 18.86
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19cua/
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Note: Hostless galactic plane transient
Acknowledgements: This work has made use of data from the European Space
Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by
the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC,
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC
has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions
participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. ZKR, DE, and PGJ
acknowledge support from the European Research Council under ERC
Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.